The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-20
THE DEATH ON TIE s. Z.
Bey0;t Of CorOner's Investiga-
tians---Full Particu airs.

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made acquainted with the facts of The
late unfortunate accident whereby
David Chugg, a brakeman on tbs
Southern Pacific Railroad, lost his life
as they have developed.
Mr. Mark Hall, the coroner, and Mr.
". n Funge, the foreman of the jury
empszeIgd to hold the inquest, were ap-
pointed a committee to inspect the
scene of lhe occurrence. The report
vas presented yesterday, and is as fol-
lows. We left Ogden on December
18th, and proceeded directly to Bish
ops. on the lIne of the Southern Pac hC
Comp8Dy, and stopped all night at the
section house. In the early morning
accompanied by James Cassidy, the
section foreman, we proceeded east to
Bishops bridge. the sCe6e- of the acct
dent. o. arrival there we made a mi
mute Investigation, and obtained the
necessary measurements bearing on
the accident, to-wiLi We found that
the deceased was struck by the tim.
ba-s Of the east end of said
bridge. Immediately over the run
ming board of the car, knocking
him back on the car frame, from which
position he was shaken by the rolling
of the car, and thrown with great
violence against the west end of the
bridge, knocking the :imbers loose
therefIom; and dropping the body to
the floor of the bridge, Ii was carried
6tty-tVo and half feet from where it
struck the bridge to where il was found.
We Slso found from measurement that
the height of the arch Of the bridge,
from top of rails, is sixteen feet eleven
inches. The arch where deceased
struck consists of about three and g
half inches thick of timbers, as follows:
One piece OF inch timber, running hori-
1ontslIy across said bridge and one
inch pieces rum ng vertically from
arch to roof, and also an outside strir
one and & half inches thick. all oi WaIch
together make a thickness of three
aud 3 half inches, which We found
brokers' by the conclusion, and found
fragments of these timbers that were
hurled twenty feet from their original
position.
ISiened), MARX HALL, Coroner,
W. w. FUNGE, Fore nan.
The testimony of the conductor,
engineer and fireman, who were on the
train at the time of the accident, is as
follows:
THE CONDUCTOR.
The deceased met his death on the
18th Of December, at 1890 am, at a
point two miles west of TuIasco siding,
8. P. 2. r The train broke in two,
'eRving the rear part two miles from the
Doini at which the accident occurred.
Deceased was on the forward TART of the
train. while the witness and the other
brakeman were on the rear or detached
sscti0n, which was two miles from the
scene Of the accident. Witness did not
see the accident, but stated, as rationI
conclusion, that the deceased was
struck by the tiLnbers of the bridge
known IS Bishops Greek bridge. This
witness test de | fur her that the height
OF said bridge above q box car will not
admit Of the brakemen doing their duty
during the passage through said bridge.
The train had no air brakes, not I'M
usual thing with trains. The witness
cautioned deceased about the danger
attending the passage Of said bridge,
sNd that several men have been
knocked down by reason OF the bridge
not being high enough.
THE ENGINEER.
When leaving Wells, December 18th
Tor Csrlin, the oaboose broke loose from
The train. near Tulssco, and a brake
man discovered It, He came and told
me of it, and l. instructed him to let it
go until We got to Bishops, when We
would meet the No. 8 passenger train
and then go oGck;for it. also told him
two OF three times not to go on the top
Of the train until it had passed through
tbs bridge. as I s-W he was excited.
Shortly after, he disappeared, and did
not see him any more. The train not
slowing down, I asked q man on the
train to go out and set the brakes,
which he did. When ! stopped the
rain. man came back and said there
vas 10 Dne on it. and he thought the
orakema an must have fallen of. When
the passenger train ceme, l told the en-
giueer TO look out for our missing
brakeman, as thought he might have
got knocked of or had stepped off our
train.
THE FIREMAN.
I returned from Bishops on No. 8,
sngiBe 224, to look for Traey's. head
brakeman. When . short distance
rons covered bridge, We saw something
aying inside Of it. The engineer
stopped the train, and We went to the
bridge. where We found the young man
dead
at She inquest. Mr.. Thomas &. Lit
lie. once an employee of the Central Pa
siio Railroad Company, testified as
THE Autopsy.
We, the undersigned, having made an
of the body of q man, said
% b that of David Chugg, at the un-
isxtskiug establishment Of 8. n. Pre-
shaw. in Ogden City, at about 8 p. n.
II the 18th day of December, 1887, sub
nil herewith the following report 70
The coroner: rr-.
There was on the top OF the head a
bruised and torn wound, semi circular
n shape, and four and a half inches
long.
The skull, from enc end of the wound
. the other was fra3tui ed, the crack in
he bone being one-fourIh inch wide. !
En- IsTeing the cut. the crack was found |